EPL 2023/2024
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Rashford scored a peach of a goal. Then spent the rest of the match being absolute pants.
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@Billy-Tell said in EPL 2023/2024:
Rashford scored a peach of a goal. Then spent the rest of the match being absolute pants.
He was - he and Garnacho were very poor at actually holding the ball to get the team up the pitch. Thought Bruno was good but after the goal and a couple of other potential breaks, they hardly had a sniff. And the complaint about a Walker foul before the City goal would have been more valid had Rashford not fallen over with very light contact on his arm.
That was Foden's game, consistently the most dangerous player and 2 very good goals. He's what Rashford should be, works his socks off the whole game. Haaland did miss the most open of open goals in the first half - that was truly awful.
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2023/2024:
@Billy-Tell said in EPL 2023/2024:
Rashford scored a peach of a goal. Then spent the rest of the match being absolute pants.
He was - he and Garnacho were very poor at actually holding the ball to get the team up the pitch. Thought Bruno was good but after the goal and a couple of other potential breaks, they hardly had a sniff. And the complaint about a Walker foul before the City goal would have been more valid had Rashford not fallen over with very light contact on his arm.
That was Foden's game, consistently the most dangerous player and 2 very good goals. He's what Rashford should be, works his socks off the whole game. Haaland did miss the most open of open goals in the first half - that was truly awful.
Yeah awful. Sure Walker put a hand on but he needed to keep going for goal, not dive.
England really should go far in euros but Gareth Southgate strikes me as the Ian foster of soccer coaches. They have some great talent on offer such as Foden.
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I don't think Southgate is brave enough to pick
Pickford
2 full backs, a fast central defender and Stones with Stones moving forward on attack.
Rice
Foden & Bellingham
Saka, Kane and someone on the left (nobody is claiming that spot at the moment).Foden is wasted playing on the left, much more dangerous when he can roam infield.
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@KiwiPie Sadly I agree. Southgate has done a great job treating the England squad like a club side and getting a real spirit going. The downside is a reluctance to change the squad or the tactics.
Jordan Henderson's leadership and Maguire's reliability will be cited when he picks them to face Serbia.
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once again, not EPL but have to post this, Wimbledon beat MK Franchise in the 94th minute, every win we get just proves they shouldn't exist, look at those scenes!
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@Kiwiwomble I don't get the point. Yes the owners back in the 90's shafted you but that gives you a rivalry and a new club.
Most Dons fans wouldn't have been born back then I'm guessing.
Great that fans and players have cause to celebrate. Savour it.
Rivalries are what makes football special and they change and evolve over time. When I started following Fulham Hounslow Town didn't even feature. Now I know for younger fans, they are the club they least want to lose to.
For me it's always the mob up the road who only exist because we wouldn't move to a swampy cabbage patch.
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@dogmeat its because their main argument at the time (that the FA bought into) was that it was effectively impossible in modern football to actually work your way up the leagues and MK "deserved" a professional football team...at "fact" we have disproven by not only making it back to the football league within 9 years but also overtaking MK (in previous seasons)
we have rivalries with teams like crawley and even Luton as we were fighting with them for promotion through different leagues or Palace because they are local and we shared a ground for so long.....this is a grudge
we didnt get given a new club, we made it starting with open trials in the local park
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@Kiwiwomble said in EPL 2023/2024:
we didnt get given a new club, we made it starting with open trials in the local park
and good on you, but I have to wonder if it would have worked without the impetus of the grudge.
Either way one of the best football stories of the last 30 years.
I just think some of the grudge is a bit pathetic (like the underarm thing here). Like not putting their name up on your scoreboard etc.
You seem to be blaming MK but surely the impetus and blame lies with the Wimbledon ownership of the time. Yes MK wanted a football club but first Ron Noades and then the guy that ultimately did the deal were all in favour. Thye'd have moved anywhere Dublin or Belfast.
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@dogmeat people dislike the MK fans because they mostly seem to love being hated, they love chanting that they took someone else's spot in the league, that they stole a club, of course the owners at the time are largely to blame, more importantly for getting us into a situation where moving had to be considered but almost everyone is long gone and so all that left is a toxic tiny group of fans that love being hated
we didn;t put the "dons" up on the scoreboard once back in like 2012, and accordingly got fined, it is one of the contentious points as it seems a deliberate piss take seeing as the club has officially given up all rights to the Wimbledon History
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City United was surely the most embarrassing game for United in many a year.
Rashford scored an absolute screamer, then complete duffed two brilliant opportunities that could have changed things. Then Haaland missed one that would be infinitely easier to score, then miss.
But the United game plan seemed to be allow City to attack them wave after wave after wave. I said to my son at half time it would be 4-1 to City. It was utterly absurd.
I'm fully on the ETH out bandwagon.
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@MajorRage Yeah, they way he's go them set up is like a team fighting for relegation/mid table championship. They sit so deep, almost on the 6 yard box, they're slow and old, they don't know how to play in posession, and rely heavily on playing on the break with the simple long ball over the top.
The concerning thing about Ten Hag is how he has the team playing. Look at Tottenham, Brighton and Bournemouth. Yes they're 5th, 9th and 12th, but the way they play in posession is a joy to watch.
Man U just sit 10 men behind the ball and hope for the best (which hs worked well for them as they somehow sit 6th when 14th would be a fairer reflection on how they play).
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Absolutely chuffed at how well Aston Villa are doing this season. I'm like a pig in shit to be honest. Martinez brilliant in goal, Pau Torres looks like world-class centre back, McGinn is fantastic in the engine room, Bailey has been a revelation on the wing and Watkins is on fire up front. I love the passion and commitment of the whole squad. Unai Emery is cooking something very special.
The only downer has been all those injuries. Fingers crossed for the last third of the season.
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@Kiwiwomble Great scenes. I'd didn't seen any other fans half as passionate this weekend.
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United's game plan wasn't terrible but they couldn't keep it up - Chelsea managed it better at the Etihad by pressing the City midfield harder to disrupt the flow and get turnovers. Although Chelsea got deeper and deeper in the 2nd half, I think it gets harder and harder to keep up the work rate. Thought Rashford and Garnacho were awful at working hard to keep the ball whenever they did get it - Rashford as usual looks disinterested and Garnacho probably shouldn't be starting every week at this stage in his career - he was being bullied.
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@sparky said in EPL 2023/2024:
@Kiwiwomble Great scenes. I'd didn't seen any other fans half as passionate this weekend.
the attendance is also under 8K, a compact stadium can do wonders to generate some atmosphere, 3 of the 4 stands are semi temp (permanent foundations with more than scaffold but basically just a steel frame) to allow for further development if we ever progress up the league, the ground also has a pub that is packed after games to generate some extra money
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@sparky Konsa coming back is a big bonus, and Torres I hope isn't too seriously injured but credit to Lenglet, he's been good of late.
Looks like Ramsey will be out for a bit so Rogers will get a go I assume, although I would like to see Diaby played on the left, but Emery doesn't seem keen on it.
European football starts again for us, so 2 games a week starting with Ajax on Friday NZ time.
